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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an…
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Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
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It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
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Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups…
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If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
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Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
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Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
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But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a…
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Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
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This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
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The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
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One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.
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The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters,…
— William Beebe
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Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of…
— Sun Tzu
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
— Seneca the Younger
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The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic…
— Milton Friedman
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It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation.
— Samuel Bowers
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A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and…
— Heather Donahue
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Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We…
— Art Buchwald
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I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a…
— Eugene Ionesco
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The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed…
— Mortimer Zuckerman
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Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength…
— Bruce Lee
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This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside…
— George Orwell
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If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would…
— Eugene V. Debs
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